pets

as my time at elena's is slowly coming to a close, i realized i never introduced you all to the puppies. Oliver is the golden lab in the front. they are both eating whatever they can find on the deck. edible or not. there is a pecan tree in the back, so they spend the late summer chewing on those.

say hello to nala, quite possibly the needy-est dog to ever walk the plant earth. her desire for human contact is insatiable. she's playing it cool for the cameras, i think. she usually gives me the most piteous and pathetic look i have ever seen in my life, if my hand is not on her head.

oliver is a bit more laid back. likes his own space mostly. but he loves licking flesh. post-soccer sweaty legs are his all time favorite. its pretty gross.

they are awesome dogs though. fairly well behaved, though not always. and if you learn how to properly keep a kitchen, no food ever disappears into the great unknown of nala's stomach either.

on the other pet front, it seems that one of the cats (my vote goes to masha) has consumed (or played with until dead and left in difficult to find place that will begin reeking very soon) one of Tejas' fish. We're still not sure how this happened. all we know is that the fish disappeared. and that's the best guess we could come up with. i guess maybe it jumped out of the tank for some reason (they don't even notice the fish in the tank, so i don't think they went fishing themselves) and the rest is history. very sad. it was pretty fish. also, boo has lost a TON of weight. he actually has a waist now. he still has the flabby skin belly, but the fat is no more. he still probably weighs 15-16 lbs. but now he's a lean, mean, grass eating (and subsequently throwing up) machine. sadly, this has not cleared up his leaky bum syndrome.